ALL

Question 1

Native Empires in South America

Answer 1

Mayans - Guatemala, Yucatan, Belize
Aztecs - Mexico
Incas - Peru, South America

Question 2

Bering Strait

Answer 2

Land bridge that Asians crossed to get the Americas thousands of years ago

Question 3

Scientific Revolution

Answer 3

An era of technological advances in Europe that led to increased exploration
Compass
Sextant
Mapmaking
Shipbuilding
Printing press

Question 4

Ferdinand and Isabella

Answer 4

King and queen of Spain who funded Columbus’s voyage

Question 5

Protestant Reformation

Answer 5

A break from the Catholic Church, motivated Christians to spread their religion to the New World

Question 6

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 6

Portuguese monarch

Sponsored voyages that went around Africa to get to India and Asia

Question 7

Vasco da Gama

Answer 7

Portuguese explorer

First to reach Asia using the Cape Good Hope route that went around South Africa

Question 8

Christopher Columbus

Answer 8

First explorer to establish a permanent settlement in the New World and make contact with the natives

Landed on island in the Bahamas

Following voyages yielded little success

Question 9

Columbian Exchange

Answer 9

An exchange of diseases, crops, animals, and plants between the New World and Old World

Question 10

line of demarcation

Answer 10

A line drawn by the Pope in 1493 that gave certain lands to Spain and others to Portugal

Question 11

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 11

An agreement between Spain and Portugal to move the line of demarcation a few degrees to the west

Question 12

conquistadores

Answer 12

Spanish explorers and conquerors

Question 13

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Answer 13

Conquistador

Crossed the isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain

Question 14

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 14

Conquistador

First to circumnavigate the globe

Question 15

Hernan Cortes

Answer 15

Conquered the Aztecs and claimed Mexico for Spain

Question 16

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 16

Conquered the Incas and claimed South America

Question 17

encomienda system

Answer 17

Spain’s system where the king would give land grants and native slaves to Spaniards

Question 18

asiento system

Answer 18

The system the Spanish turned to after the native population was reduced

African slaves could be obtained by Spanish owners in exchange for a small tax